Thread regarding General Electric Co. layoffs

Use your PTO days while you can!

if you are still an employee that has vacation (LP band and below) they will pay (they are required by law ) your accrued vacation days out. If you are SP and above you are part of the PTO scam and since you no longer have any accrued vacation you won't be paid for any. The advice below that says if you think you're already gone take as much PTO as you can get away with is spot on. You aren't going to be paid for any vacation so you might as well take as much time off as you can before the general puts you on permanent vacation.

Something everybody should see. From @O6jFGMI-2oqs.

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All exempt employees have unlimited PTO. Do what everyone else is doing, take time off!

Oddly enough the PTO policy is a savings to the company. Most folks were cheating on their time off anyhow.

Drive by one of our locations on a Friday and see how the parking lots are empty by noon.

The OP is probably right about PTO being a scam. In about 3 years folks will see what the PTO was all about. Enjoy while it lasts.

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Post ID: @7myy+O8VbLVu

PTO came out to all remaining bands last year. As a legacy Alstom employee, my 200 hrs of banked and accrued vacation are being held hostage until January 2018. Those I have known that got RIF'd couldn't collect their banked vacation until after severance ran out.

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Post ID: @7wdu+O8VbLVu

The permissive time off program started in early 2015 with just E band and SP's. looks like they have pushed this "wonderful" benefit down to all exempt employees

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Post ID: @6qwi+O8VbLVu

maybe it depends on where you work within GE because I do work for GE, I am LPB, and I have permissive time off.

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Post ID: @5qaw+O8VbLVu

Agreed, the OP is wrong about bands and Permissive Leave. ALL exempt employees (not just SPB) have been on Permissive Leave since last year: http://recruiting.ge.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/recruiting/us/doc/2016%20Permissive%20Approach%20-%20Employee%20New%20Hire%20Notice%20%20FAQs.pdf

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Post ID: @1pue+O8VbLVu

Op is wrong. Lead doesn't get vacation time

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Post ID: @1wdd+O8VbLVu

op is correct

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Post ID: @tnm+O8VbLVu

Whoever wrote this doesn't work for ge. They are way off on the bands and permissive time

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Post ID: @fus+O8VbLVu

Good advice for all SP and above

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